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A Q1 as strong as before the Covid crisis, but Artprice identifies five big changes - Seite 2

4. The NFT revolution

The sale of Beeple's NFT Everydays marked the start of a possible revolution on the art market. The work was purchased for $69 million in a Christie's online auction using the Ether cryptocurrency. Indeed, this new market appears to have become even more 'intangible' since Sotheby's generated $16.8 million by selling "The Fungible Collection", a digital work offered online in unlimited quantities and created by the anonymous and mysterious Pak.

5. Red-chips dethrone blue-chips

Since the end of 2020, art auctions around the world have hammered some surprising results for extremely recent works. Journalist Scott Reyburn (in The Art Newspaper) cites, as an example, Christie's "20th Century: Hong Kong to New York" sale on 2 December 2020 and says he was surprised to see Dana Schutz's canvas Elevator (2017) fetch $6.5 million and Andy Warhol's "classic" Campbell's Soup Can (1962) sell for just $6.1 million (especially as the latter reached $7.4 million in 2014). Reyburn concludes that the arrival of new collectors, in search of the latest novelties ("red-chips") is overtaking the desire to possess "blue-chip" artworks.

www.theartnewspaper.com/analysis/the-rush-for-red-chip-art

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